Category: Raleigh – Durham
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BrainCheck Raises $10M for Health Screening Platform, Local Startup Grows from McKinney with Deployment of Hospitality Tech + Catch Talent Celebrates 6 Years!
BrainCheck Raises $10M for Cognitive Health Screening Platform HOUSTON – Cognitive Care. Houston-based startup BrainCheck raised $10 million in Series B capital to develop its cognitive health screening technology. BrainCheck’s Series B funding round was led by Austin-based Next Coast Ventures and Austin-based S3 Ventures, the health technology firm announced Nov. 3. Additional investors in the Series…
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Venture Atlanta Showcases 91 Stellar Startups, NC Biotech Center Helps Fuel State’s Startup Ecosystem + 3D Systems Acquiring Volumetric
Venture Atlanta Showcases 91 Stellar Startups ATLANTA – Like the Braves’ Freddie Freeman Venture Atlanta knocked it out of the park this past October 20-21, producing a hybrid event that presented an array of top-shelf, scalable startups from seed to growth-stage, hosting hundreds of investors and other attendees, and welcoming Atlanta tech royalty to the stage including, Mailchimp…
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Freeform 3D Printing Startup Partners with NASA, Icon Tech Plans to Print 100-Home Community + 6AM City Rounds Up the 7 Best Fall Festivals in Lowcountry
Freeform 3D Printing Startup Partners with NASA CHATTANOOGA – Space Printing. Branch Technology is building for the moon. Alongside material scientists at Stanford University and global architecture firm Fosters + Partners (designers of Apple’s Cupertino HQ), Branch Technology is working with NASA on what it would take to design 3D printed structures on the moon. Branch Technology’s…
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Vantaca bringing 100+ jobs to Wilmington, 20 women-led startups join Atlanta Techstars Pre-accelerator, SXSW Pitch Apps Open
Vantaca Bringing 100+ Jobs Paying $80k to Wilmington RALEIGH – Fast Growing Tech Hub. Software firm Vantaca is bringing more than 100 new jobs paying $80,000 to Wilmington and will receive some $1.7 million in state and local tax incentives under an agreement with the State of North Carolina. New jobs include programmers, technicians and…
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National PBS Show Featuring Local Startups Airs Tuesday, HR Startup Raises $15M Seed for Intelligent Interviewing Platform + Dolby Vision gaming launches first on Xbox Series X and S
National PBS Show Featuring Local Startups Airs Tuesday WILMINGTON – Startups Take Live TV. Local and national TV audiences will get to learn about Wilmington startups and entrepreneurs starting Tuesday through the airing of the first episode of START UP. The first episode will air on PBS (WUNC-DT4) at 4:30 p.m., as well as on World Channel.…
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Palmetto Launches ‘Get Solar, Give Solar’, Google’s Black Founders Fund Selects 5 Startups, Blackbaud’s Mike Gianoni Answers “Five for the Tribe”
Palmetto Launches New ‘Get Solar, Give Solar’ Program CHARLESTON – Clean energy. Palmetto, a rapidly growing platform technology company accelerating the national adoption of clean energy, today – in conjunction with the start of Climate Week – is announcing its new ‘Get Solar, Give Solar’ program focused on providing underserved communities with access to solar energy systems. Palmetto…
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Nashville Startup Combines Sports Betting and Tech, NC State Identifies Neutron Beam, Abby Leibowitz Appears on SOUTH POD Today!
Nashville Startup is Bringing Sports Betting to the Online Age NASHVILLE – Digitizing casinos. Sports betting is currently only legal in 18 states and DC, with a handful of states actively debating the adoption of new legislation to allow for it. Tennessee legalized sports betting in 2019, which Daniel Kustelski, CEO of Chaulkine said has helped…
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Atlanta Tech Village Modernizing Construction Recruitment, Web App Saves Money at the Grocery, TriNet’s Dynamic Speaker Roster
Atlanta Tech Village startup NewCrew Modernizes Construction Recruitment ATLANTA – Modernizing construction. To find construction jobs, many workers just look for cranes in the sky, NewCrew founder Kaitlin Lutz said. Then, they walk up to the job site and hope the contractors need more hands. It’s an old-fashioned process in a digital age in which most…
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New Raleigh Startup Padeo Cuts Website Load Times Using Predictive Model
Businesses in the U.S. lose millions of dollars each year from having a slow website. For a company like Amazon, that can mean a loss of up to $1.6 billion per year. Padeo, a new startup out of the Triangle, has announced that they’re offering a new way to decrease website load times in a…
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HiveTracks Get Pollinated with New Funding, Florida Southern eSports, Call for Startups
HiveTracks Get Pollinated with New Funding An emerging startup focused on improving health outcomes for honeybees, HiveTracks, has raised nearly $170,000 in 2021 thus far and plans to raise more ahead of a key product launch slotted for June. Founder James Wilkes is using computing to drive positive outcomes for honeybees and all the stakeholders…
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Shyft Shifts Into New Gear, Cisco Acquires Sedona Systems, Boomtown Accelerators Hiring in ATL
Shyft Auto Gains Traction Shyft Auto founders (and recent Wild Pitch Wednesday guests) say they didn’t have a pandemic in mind when they originally developed a tech platform to help car dealerships go “contactless.” Then COVID-19 hit, just as they were launching, and it became even more relevant. “When repair shops closed their waiting areas,…
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Cleaning Robot Captures Hearts, Safer Reusables from QUVI, ROK Tech Wins Gold, Raleigh’s AURA AI Tech Lands $50M Contract
Tampa Startup With High-Tech Cleaning Robots Is Getting National Attention Christine Gallo has spent the last 18 months pivoting from simply trying to save lives to now trying to protect businesses. “Before it was pandemonium, and now it’s strategic,” said Gallo, owner and founder of IP Program Infection Prevention. “We were trying to save lives…
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Tom Brady’s Tech Touch (yes, that Tom Brady) + NC Angels Up for a Vote
TOM BRADY TOP OF HIS CLASS Seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady is using his tech touch to help students stay connected. Brady, alongside Madonna and U2 manager Guy Oseary and Salesforce Ventures, has participated in a $12.2 million funding round for a Washington D.C. education startup. “As most parents experienced firsthand, the pandemic highlighted…
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Alto Changes Crypto, Element 451 invests $3M into Student Enrollment, Greenville Tech Company Visited by President Biden
TECH IN THE SOUTH NASHVILLE – Crypto new ways. When Alto closed its $2.8 million seed round in early 2019, the team was on a mission to make alternative investment opportunities accessible to more people. Now, the Nashville-based team raised a $17 million Series A funding round this week, led by Menlo Park-based Unusual Ventures. Read more. RALEIGH…
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SCRA CEO Bob Quinn talks SC startups, Itential Lands $20M, Find out more about your customers at the next SCRA Webinar
Flying Cars, the Future for SC Startups and Elon Musk: Q & A with SCRA CEO Bob Quinn DIG SOUTH recently caught up with SCRA CEO Bob Quinn to get his take on the tech world and bring us up-to-speed on the current state of SCRA (South Carolina Research Authority). SCRA was founded in 1983 with…
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Gang-Run Craft Brewery in Wilmington Gets Molson Coors Investment, DIG SOUTH Tech Summit in Charleston, eBlu Kentucky Startup Raises $11.4M
YOUR SUMMER DESTINATION – DIG SOUTH TECH SUMMIT! It’s alive! It’s alive! DIG SOUTH Tech Summit is coming July 28-30 in-person and streaming. Mark your calendars…seriously…right now. Very few in-person tech conferences will happen this year and you do not want to miss the best one in the South – in Charleston! Join us to refresh your…
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Nuclein Raises $14 M, DIG NATION member Roundup
Without a Product For Sale, Nuclein Raises $14M Austin startup Nuclein might become known as the company that made an at-home Covid-19 test that’s so easy you just spit in a can, press a button and wait about an hour for results. But this isn’t the story of a startup built out of the current pandemic. Nuclein was founded back…
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BoomTown Acquires Brokermint, Special Offer from Serenity
BoomTown Acquires Brokermint to Help Leverage Closings Real estate sales and marketing company BoomTown has acquired a company that automates back-office management and transactions, the company said in a news release. BrokerMint is the third acquisition for the company since 2018. BoomTown, which moved to the Pacific Box & Crate development in North Charleston, began…
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6AM City Launches RICtoday, Quantgene and CureMatch Join Forces, Special Offer from Serenity
DIG SOUTH Wild Pitch 2019 Runner Up 6AM City AnnouncesLaunch of RICtoday 6AM City, the runner up in DIG SOUTH Wild Pitch 2019, has announced it is doubling the size of the business in 2021 and continuing its expansion with the launch of RICtoday (Richmond, VA) in May, to join eight existing southeastern markets and over 400,000 subscribers. 6AM has…
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DIG SOUTH Featured company GoPuff Raises 1.2 B, Paul Sparrow on SOUTH POD Tonight
Former DIG SOUTH Tech Summit Featured Company GoPuff Raises $1.2B; Valuation of $8.9B Delivery startup goPuff announced Tuesday that it raised $1.2 billion in funding at a valuation of $8.9 billion. That’s $5 billion more than its previous valuation in October 2020. GoPuff VP of Strategy and Chief of Staff Dan Folkman kicked off DIG…
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Raleigh Gets Smart, Chief Outsiders on SOUTH POD, DIG NATION Welcomes New Members Parker Poe Adams and Bernstein + Quantgene
TECH IN THE SOUTH BIRMINGHAM – Women in the workforce. Delphine Carter saw the need to connect companies with diverse, non-traditional talent and help women jump back into their careers. What was born was Boulo Solutions, a career and staffing platform designed for women in the workforce. Tech it out. RALEIGH – Smart cities. Raleigh-based EDJX Inc.,…
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Lenovo CEO Calls “new IT” the Key to Company Evolution, Wild Pitch Wednesday with Shyft Auto
WILD PITCH WEDNESDAYFEATURING: SHYFT AUTO Wed, March 17, 11amREGISTER NOW Shyft Auto helps reduce chaos at automotive repair shops while giving consumers an Amazon-like experience for service. Shyft’s technology helps repair shops offer contactless solutions to their customers, while increasing retention, revenue, and satisfaction scores. The Shyft Auto team was a recipient of the NC…
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Wild Pitch Wednesday with Paul Sparrow of Chief Outsiders
Learn New Growth Tools from CMO Paul Sparrow on DIG CAFÉ March 10 at 11 AM ETREGISTER NOW Check Your Engine Oil Before Driving: Capitalizing on the Unique Economic State of Your Business Chief Marketing Officer, speaker, and business growth expert Paul Sparrow shares a simple methodology for determining the economic health and trajectory of a given…
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Driving Growth with CMO Paul Sparrow on DIG Café, Pendo is Hiring, Member Roundup Data Protocol Hiring
Learn New Growth Tools from CMO Paul Sparrow on DIG CAFÉ Wednesday, March 10 at 11 AM ET REGISTER NOW Check Your Engine Oil Before Driving: Capitalizing on the Unique Economic State of Your Business Chief Marketing Officer, speaker, and business growth expert Paul Sparrow shares a simple methodology for determining the economic health and trajectory of…
